Category: Automation

by David Essex Artificial Intelligence is the new digital divide. Bots screen résumés in a fraction of the time, and emotion analytics weeds out corporate killjoys. So why rely on humans to make hiring decisions? Ever since a girl in high school told me that I should smile more often, I've wondered if my normal …

by Richard Watson I’m a fan of Slow Education, which, like Slow Food, teaches us to take our time. Both Slow Food and Slow Education are people-centric, reflective and aim to ensure that individuals appreciate where the things they consume come from. Both emphasise the importance of local difference, craft and quality over standardised production …

by Rohit Talwar and Alexandra Whittington Bold predictions and skeptical challenges abound regarding the speed with which autonomous vehicles could emerge. The evangelists believe we could see a rapid evolution from ‘level 1’ function specific automation of tasks - such as stability control - through to ‘level 4’ fully self-driving vehicles. Indeed, in early 2017 …

by Ian Pearson As AI increases in corporate, social, economic and political importance, it is becoming a big target for activists and I think there are too many vulnerabilities. I think we should be seeing a lot more articles than we are about what developers are doing to guard against deliberate misdirection or corruption, and …

by Adi Gaskell As AI has progressed at quite a pace in recent years, it is inevitable that governments have tried to get a handle on things and better understand how it might influence society. For instance, I wrote recently about a report by the British government’s Science & Technology Select Committee into AI, which looked at …

by Nick Price One of the most interesting middle ground challenges for businesses today is employment change through automation. By ‘middle ground’, I mean changes that fall between the practical present and the far-off future. In this case, the far-off future is a society reshaped by mass removal of jobs and small but hugely effective …

by Calum Chace In the next few decades most humans will become unemployable because machines (AI systems plus their peripherals, the robots) will be able to do anything that we can do for money cheaper, faster and better. And unlike us, their capabilities will be improving all the time. At an exponential rate, if not …

by Ciro Borriello Let me start with a short story. Born and raised in Preston, a small English village in Lancashire, Richard Arkwright was the youngest of 13 sons. His parents, Sarah and Thomas, could not afford to send him to school and it was his cousin Ellen who took care of his education. Despite adversities, …